Re: Why doesn't COPY support the HEADER options for tab-separated output?

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
> On 12/08/13 23:18, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:17:00PM -0700, Jeff Janes wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:15:25PM -0700, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Mostly just curious, as this is preventing me from using tab-separated
>>>>> output.
>>>>> I'd like there to be a header in my files. I have to use CSVs instead.
>
>
> Late to the discussion, but it does work to set format=csv and delimiter =
> E'\t' to get tab-separated. Be nice not to have to though.

Also, the escaping/quoting mechanisms are different.  I often find the
escapes of the TEXT format more convenient than the CSV with E'\t'.

Cheers,

Jeff